[Dx-qsl] Mail to ZD7

Mon Feb 28 21:02:10 EST 2005

At 20:57 28-02-05, Bruce Small wrote:
>USPS has bounced a couple of QSL requests to Saint Helena back to me, one 
>stamped "Return for better address. Please show city and state of 
>destination and zip code" and the other stamped "Insufficient address." To 
>the best of my knowledge, St. Helena doesn't use zip codes.

STHL-1ZZ is the post code
That said, I've sent many out addressed just as shown and they get there 
and back again. I've never had one bounce. I think it's a case of a postal 
in-DUH-vidual who never studied either history or geography and it "didn't 
compute" in his brainpan that there is such a place that's not a well-known 
"country."
>The addresses, taken from QRZ.com, are of the form:
>>[Operator name]
>P.O. Box [number]
>Jamestown
>Saint Helena
>South Atlantic Ocean

This is quite valid and has worked for me on many an occasion.
- pjd
W2IRT